Dolent vs Dolente - What's the difference?
dolent | dolente |
(archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
* 1874 ,
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 148:
*:‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
(label) A direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
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As an adjective dolent
is sad, sorrowful.As an adverb dolente is
a direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.dolent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
- Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
- With horror ever deepening from the first.